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  LifeWay downtown Nashville campus under contract of sale

  LifeWay Christian Resources has found a buyer for its campus in downtown Nashville, Tenn.

  03/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Registration open for SBC annual meeting

  Registration for messengers and local hotels has opened for the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, June 16-17, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio’s capital city.

  03/20/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  More than 80,000 Bibles shipped to Cuba for churches

  Three 40-foot containers packed with 83,723 Spanish-language Bibles are expected to arrive in Havana March 25.

  03/19/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Louisiana College elects president

  Trustees of the Louisiana Baptist Convention-related college unanimously elected Rick Brewer, vice president of student affairs and athletics at Charleston Southern University in Charleston, S.C., as Louisiana College’s 11th president.

  03/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Theology students report own lives transformed by teaching inmates

  It’s been hard for some to fathom how a condemned prisoner earned a certificate in theology on Georgia’s death row.

  03/11/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  WorldCrafts adds artisan groups and products

  WorldCrafts, the fair-trade initiative of Woman’s Missionary Union, has added to its worldwide network of partners artisan groups from Rwanda and South Bronx to offer more than 150 products this year.

  03/04/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  As Ebola crisis subsides, WMU grants will help Liberian schools re-open

  Grants totaling $44,000 from national Woman’s Missionary Union and the WMU Foundation will help re-open Liberian schools closed since the Ebola crisis.

  03/04/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  SBC leaders urge Obama to defend ‘the least of these’ against ISIS

  Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd and former SBC leaders called on President Obama to defend “the least of these” against the Islamic State, the militant Islamist group that’s also known as ISIS or ISIL.

  03/04/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Fired Atlanta fire chief sues city

  Former Atlanta fire chief Kelvin Cochran filed a federal lawsuit against the city claiming he was fired because of his religious beliefs.

  02/27/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Concern for children, not ill will, prompts activism, religious groups insist

  Faith groups, including the moral concerns arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, say they bear no ill-will toward homosexual couples but do not want them to be allowed to marry.

  02/26/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Southern Baptists try to diversify churches, but will it work?

  The SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is planning a Gospel and Racial Reconciliation Summit March 26-27 in Nashville, and African-American church leaders’ reactions are ranging from polite skepticism to hopeful support.

  02/25/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Baptist Briefs: Churches burned in Niger

  At least 68 churches, two of them Baptist, have been burned in the West African country of Niger after attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist group.

  02/19/2015 - By John Rutledge